Will they pause support to the IDF given their prosecution for genocide?
What gets me is how this specific incident sparked the current probe and western scrutiny, but everyone ignores the wider picture which has been taken for granted by Israelis for decades:
UNRWA’s 30,000 workers spread out over Gaza, the West Bank and even abroad are mostly Palestinians, and even its small number of international employees are Arabs, Europeans, etc who specifically applied for a position in UNRWA, which would be tantamount to deliberately seeking an assignment in an agency dedicated exclusively to helping Israelis, so they’re not exactly randomly sampled neutral citizens of the world.
According to polls, the overwhelming majority of Palestinians support Israel’s dissolution by any means necessary, including violent terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, whether by Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, or lone wolf attack.
The simple exercise of third-grade math should therefore establish, irrefutably, that not just UNRWA as a whole as opposed to 12 employees who may have been *directly* caught *participating* in October 7 ( Which would also be the only time that UNRWA workers in Gaza could actually cross the fence ), but virtually every international organization that recruits from the local Palestinian population is going to be a vector for terrorism.
Ironically I know of very few UN agencies or international groups whose staff consist of 90% Israelis, so an equivalent situation would not be possible even if polls reflected similar sentiments in Israeli society, and I’m sure Pro-Palestinians would harp about the demographics of those organizations to no end if that were the case.
The ‘UN’ prefix has essentially covered up UNRWA’s identity as, for all intents and purposes, a *Palestinian organization* in the minds of lazy readers who think ‘UN’ prefixes stand for a diverse mix of people from Fiji, Peru, Sri Lanka and Norway.
Good. Hope to see more countries cut off funding.
It’s good to see action finally. UNRWA should be dissolved.
Even if the accusations are true, there are certain things you don’t prosecute or accuse humanitarian aid orgs of doing. UNHCR, WHO and UNRWA all recognize that when working in conflict zone you ended up working with individuals that a considered pariah to the international community. You couldn’t establish logistics/community/services to the people in conflict without engaging with both actors.
That’s the whole point of impartiality that
UNICEF, UNRWA and other like MSF engage in.
It would show a larger failure of UNRWA if they didn’t have employees who are aiding or part of Hamas, because that would show they have no established connections to a political agent within the area they are working in.
UK never does something right, huh?
People are starving to death, but yet they’re collectively punished even further.
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Will they pause support to the IDF given their prosecution for genocide?
What gets me is how this specific incident sparked the current probe and western scrutiny, but everyone ignores the wider picture which has been taken for granted by Israelis for decades:
UNRWA’s 30,000 workers spread out over Gaza, the West Bank and even abroad are mostly Palestinians, and even its small number of international employees are Arabs, Europeans, etc who specifically applied for a position in UNRWA, which would be tantamount to deliberately seeking an assignment in an agency dedicated exclusively to helping Israelis, so they’re not exactly randomly sampled neutral citizens of the world.
According to polls, the overwhelming majority of Palestinians support Israel’s dissolution by any means necessary, including violent terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, whether by Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, or lone wolf attack.
The simple exercise of third-grade math should therefore establish, irrefutably, that not just UNRWA as a whole as opposed to 12 employees who may have been *directly* caught *participating* in October 7 ( Which would also be the only time that UNRWA workers in Gaza could actually cross the fence ), but virtually every international organization that recruits from the local Palestinian population is going to be a vector for terrorism.
Ironically I know of very few UN agencies or international groups whose staff consist of 90% Israelis, so an equivalent situation would not be possible even if polls reflected similar sentiments in Israeli society, and I’m sure Pro-Palestinians would harp about the demographics of those organizations to no end if that were the case.
The ‘UN’ prefix has essentially covered up UNRWA’s identity as, for all intents and purposes, a *Palestinian organization* in the minds of lazy readers who think ‘UN’ prefixes stand for a diverse mix of people from Fiji, Peru, Sri Lanka and Norway.
Good. Hope to see more countries cut off funding.
It’s good to see action finally. UNRWA should be dissolved.
Even if the accusations are true, there are certain things you don’t prosecute or accuse humanitarian aid orgs of doing. UNHCR, WHO and UNRWA all recognize that when working in conflict zone you ended up working with individuals that a considered pariah to the international community. You couldn’t establish logistics/community/services to the people in conflict without engaging with both actors.
That’s the whole point of impartiality that
UNICEF, UNRWA and other like MSF engage in.
It would show a larger failure of UNRWA if they didn’t have employees who are aiding or part of Hamas, because that would show they have no established connections to a political agent within the area they are working in.
UK never does something right, huh?
People are starving to death, but yet they’re collectively punished even further.